Queens man arrested on exposure charge

Staff reports

Updated 8:05 pm, Wednesday, October 16, 2013

STAMFORD -- A Queens, N.Y., man was arrested Tuesday after a female high school student called her parents to report that a man was exposing himself in a car as she walked by Tuesday afternoon, police said.

Otto Zelaya, 25, of Vanderveer St., Queens Village, was charged with indecent exposure. He was released after posting $10,000 bond.

Sgt. Gary Michele said the high school senior was walking down Prospect Street at about 2:30 p.m. when she saw a man sitting in a car with his genitals exposed.

The girl called her parents about the man, who in turn called police. When police arrived at the scene, they found Zelaya still sitting in his car, but not doing anything illegal, Michele said.

He asked the officers what was going on and when they told him about the complaint, asked what was going to happen to him because he had been arrested for the same type of thing in the past, Michele said.

When asked what he was doing in Stamford, Zelaya said he was in the city to get his passport updated for a trip to El Salvador he is taking soon, Michele said.

After the girl was brought by the car again and identified Zelaya as the one she saw expose himself, he was arrested, Michele said.